Re: [PATCH 1/2] Export usb_serial_generic_write_room for use in othermodules

From: Alon Ziv
Date: Sat Oct 23 2010 - 13:04:57 EST


On 10/23/2010 06:37 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 06:20:17PM +0200, Alon Ziv wrote:
>
>> Any module using usb_serial_generic_write (which is already exported)
>> had better use usb_serial_generic_write_room as well.
>>
> Are you implying that the one driver using this function today is
> broken? Care to provide a patch for it as well?
>
>
Well...
The one driver using it now is usb_debug, which only supports BREAK
signaling.
The generic code does not invoke the write_room callback before invoking
break_ctl, so there is no way to use this function in usb_serial.

At worst, with the current code, usb_serial's break_ctl may become a
no-op if
another BREAK signal is outstanding--which should not be an issue (assuming
regular serial protocol semantics, that is, "BREAK" has indeterminate
length).

-a

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